[v6, 2/8] powerpc/pseries: Defer the logging of rtas error to irq work queue.

[Michael Ellerman]

On Wed, 2018-07-04 at 17:57:21 UTC, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote:
> From: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> rtas_log_buf is a buffer to hold RTAS event data that are communicated
> to kernel by hypervisor. This buffer is then used to pass RTAS event
> data to user through proc fs. This buffer is allocated from vmalloc
> (non-linear mapping) area.
> 
> On Machine check interrupt, register r3 points to RTAS extended event
> log passed by hypervisor that contains the MCE event. The pseries
> machine check handler then logs this error into rtas_log_buf. The
> rtas_log_buf is a vmalloc-ed (non-linear) buffer we end up taking up a
> page fault (vector 0x300) while accessing it. Since machine check
> interrupt handler runs in NMI context we can not afford to take any
> page fault. Page faults are not honored in NMI context and causes
> kernel panic. Apart from that, as Nick pointed out, pSeries_log_error()
> also takes a spin_lock while logging error which is not safe in NMI
> context. It may endup in deadlock if we get another MCE before releasing
> the lock. Fix this by deferring the logging of rtas error to irq work queue.
> 
> Current implementation uses two different buffers to hold rtas error log
> depending on whether extended log is provided or not. This makes bit
> difficult to identify which buffer has valid data that needs to logged
> later in irq work. Simplify this using single buffer, one per paca, and
> copy rtas log to it irrespective of whether extended log is provided or
> not. Allocate this buffer below RMA region so that it can be accessed
> in real mode mce handler.
> 
> Fixes: b96672dd840f ("powerpc: Machine check interrupt is a non-maskable interrupt")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/94675cceacaec27a30eefb142c4c59

cheers